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Ireland (/ˈaɪərlənd/ or /ˈɑrlənd/; Irish: Éire, pronounced [ˈeː.ɾʲə] ), also commonly referred to as the Republic of Ireland (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in Europe occupying about five-sixths of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, located in the eastern part of the island, whose metropolitan area is home to around a quarter of the country's 4.6 million inhabitants. The state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland, one of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom. It is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, Saint George's Channel to the south east, and the Irish Sea to the east.

In 1956, a dust of mysterious plant spores blew into the town of Santa Mira, California. That’s when things started getting weird. Big green pods started growing around town. Even stranger, local psychiatrists suddenly had an influx of visits from people who lived in the community. Each patient suffered from a condition called Capgras delusion—when you believe someone you know ...

By adding more than 2 million U.S. subscribers this quarter and another 1 million elsewhere in the world, Netflix has nearly earned back its entire $100 million investment in House of Cards — in under three months, according to our calculations based on Monday's earnings report.

When I first imagined being an editor in New York City, I saw myself tucked away beside a fireplace in a cozy cafe—article and red pen in hand. While this fantasy remains a weekly ambition, it looks nothing like my actual life as a digital editor in 2016. Unlike my fireplace reverie, digital publishing involves a regimented system of checks and balances.

When you’re a content marketer who writes about content marketing, you start to see marketing analogies everywhere. I was reading about the glacial history of New York City the other day. Fifty thousand years ago, a sheet of ice one thousand feet thick sat right on top of the five boroughs. It’s far end extended down across Brooklyn and Queens, pushing soil, boulders, and anyt ...

… The landscape of social marketing and content creation is forever changing. This year, we’ve seen a boom in influencer marketing and a tighter focus on return on investment across the industry. Visual content, video-based marketing and the slow adoption of live video and virtual reality technology could also provide many more changes in 2017…

… As 2016 comes to an end, the media industry faces an uncertain future. Fake news has flooded Facebook, captivated the attention of people across the nation, and likely influenced a presidential election. A BuzzFeed report found that the top 20 fake news stories about the election were shared 1.4 million times more than the top 20 real news…

… your products and offers. The more authoritative they are, and the more recognized they are to your audience, the higher the conversion gains you will record. Also, make effective use of social proof you’ve gotten by highlighting them. What the Little Albert Experiment Can Do to Your Conversion Rates Famous psychologist John Watson…

… from vendors and there is a lack of transparency in media buy pricing. 42 percent had complaints about the inability to optimize their digital marketing. Overall, the market needs more transparency, because marketers have a hard time seeing real return on investment. Ad buying also can appear as unnecessarily complex, and its processes may be turning marketers away. For insights into solving these problems, view the infographic below. …

My buzzword of the year is “scale.” At some point over the past 12 months, everyone seemed to simultaneously realize that simply saying the word “scale” would make them sound smart as hell in any meeting. When I wrote “scale” into the headline of this article, my first thought was that I’m an all-powerful god. My second thought was that this headline is going to absolutely kill it in search.

… One of my surprises in launching our agency 7 years ago was that I figured out the agency industry built more on relationships than it is the value of the services. I’d even go so far as to say it’s also largely contingent on benefits of the relationship as well. Has your client trusted you and have you been working with them for years? Well…

… Influencer marketing has been the buzzword for 2016, and it dominated the digital marketing conversation this year. Going into 2017, it’s clear that the market will mature and techniques are likely to change again. A study from content marketing agency Linqia examines the future for influencer marketing in 2017. According to the report, 2016…

… Content marketers are obsessed with tying their work to ROI, and rightfully so. Whether you create content to drive brand awareness, generate leads, or spark a sale, you have a responsibility to show the tangible impact of your investment. ROI means different things to different people, but on a basic level, it’s just proof that your department…

…, they found that a different type of content outperforms blog posts across most industries: Infographics reach 54 percent more readers than blog posts. The median cost to reach one reader for an infographic was $0.04 versus $1.77 for a blog post. Infographics have a 73 percent completion rate. Blog posts have a 66 percent completion rate…

… into creating a well-oiled content machine. Let’s take a look at a few of the most important components. A unified content strategy This might seem intuitive, but it’s crucial to have a clear and documented content strategy—especially if you want to get other departments on board with content marketing. As the Content Marketing Institute found in its…

… to Bazaarvoice, in an effort to target consumers more directly as they get into the swing of holiday shopping. Marketers are already convinced that social drives return on investment, and heading into this holiday season, they are likely to be proven right for supporting social-first campaigns. For more information, download the full report from Bazaarvoice. Image courtesy of Shutterstock. …

… campaigns and educate the business internally on programs and ROI. What should businesses be doing? The best way to maximize your marketing efforts is to break down your organizational and data silos. This is how we run our business and develop our product, but it is also the best marketing and social program plan for any company. Use all the tools…

… A few days ago, I was on the phone with a marketer from a popular appliance company when I heard an unusual request: “We want to sound like Vice.” As a content strategist at Contently, I hear this type of editorial ambition all the time: Brand X wants to be like Vice, Vox, The New York Times. Brands now understand that the voice and tone…

… to track this return on investment. Perhaps a more key problem is that 51 percent of small businesses surveyed use no social platforms in their marketing campaigns and 39 percent use Facebook. For the majority, social seems too intimidating, or small businesses feel that sites like Facebook are their only reliable option. What’s important to note is that while Facebook may drive more traffic, smaller sites may deliver a higher ROI for smaller businesses. Image courtesy of Shutterstock. …

…. In a different survey of social media marketers published by Simply Measured, only 9.4 percent of marketers are able to quantify the revenue driven by social media marketing efforts. While not proving ROI might be a pointer to the fact that a system is not totally ripe for effective and accurate measurement, or to a lack of the right metrics to do…